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'Winter Twilight from Olana' (about 1871-2) by Frederic Church is one of the 13 works on loan at the National Gallery in London.

Olana loans works to London gallery

Olana, the 250-acre home and grounds of 19th-century Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church in Columbia County, has loaned 13 works from its collection to the exhibition "Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch," on view at the National Gallery in London through April 28.

The items on loan include pieces never before exhibited, featuring work that captures the spectacular views overlooking the Hudson River. Sara Johns Griffen, president of the Olana Partnership, said the collaboration "is an opportunity to share Olana's collection with an international audience."

The exhibit is the first to examine Church's work in oil on the other side of the Atlantic and is organized with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

"The opportunity to show his works here introduces the New World into the equation," Christopher Riopelle, curator of post-1800 paintings at the National Gallery and co-curator of the exhibit, said in a written statement.

The collection will travel to the Scottish National Gallery May 11-Sept. 8. Olana is owned by the New York state Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. It is open to the public throughout the year. For more information, visit www.olana.org.

Clothesline Festival features 400 artists

New York artists are invited to apply for space at the 57th annual Clothesline Festival to be held Sept. 7-8 on the grounds of the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester.

Sponsored by M&T Bank, the juried fine-art and craft event will showcase more than 400 artists and feature live entertainment, free family art activities and an opportunity to purchase original works of art.

The deadline for application is March 22. For more information, contact the Memorial Art Gallery events office at 1-585-276-8950 or email clothesline@mag.rochester.edu.

Beacon photo named print of year

A photograph by Beacon resident Dale Leifeste won the Dutchess Regional Professional Photographers' annual Print of the Year competition for 2012.

"Open Book" was selected from among 25 prints chosen by judges at the group's quarterly competitions last year.

Program named fundraiser recipient

The Jewish Federation of Ulster County has named the Arts with a Heart program of the Alzheimer's Association Hudson Valley chapter as the recipient of proceeds from the 17th annual Fall for Art art show, sale and cocktail reception.

The event will take place from 6-9 p.m. Sept. 12 at Wiltwyck Golf Club in Kingston and will showcase work by Hudson Valley artists, to benefit the Jewish Federation of Ulster County and community programs it supports.

For more information, call 845-338-813 or email info@fallforart.org.

The Arts with a Heart program will be held in the fall at the Rosendale Recreation Center and will include art workshops for those with early-stage Alzheimer's and their caregivers.

For more information about this program, call Michele Muir at 800-272-3900.

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Olana, the 250-acre home and grounds of 19th-century Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church in Columbia County, has loaned 13 works from its collection to the exhibition 'Through American